How we built an API to detect bot-inflated domain traffic (headless browser analysis + search heuris
Hey everyone, If you build tools in ad-tech, affiliate marketing, programmatic SEO, or domain acquisition, you’ve probably run into this problem: reported website traffic is trivial to fake. Traditional SEO platforms and estimators calculate traffic by looking at Google keyword positions and multiplying them by static CTR models. Spammers take advantage of this by ranking expired domains for high-volume junk keywords, routing residential proxy botnets through search engines, or syndicating tra